Billboard Dad (1998)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Alan Metter

Writer (WGA):

Maria Jacquemetton (written by)

Genre:

Family

Tagline:

Two sisters advertise to get their dad a date...and get a whole lot more.

Plot:

Twin girls advertise their single father on a Santa Monica Billboard. |

Plot Keywords:

Product Placement

Cast

Mary-Kate Olsen	...	Tess Tyler
Ashley Olsen	...	Emily Tyler
Tom Amandes	...	Maxwell Tyler
Jessica Tuck	...	Brooke Anders
Carl Banks	...	Nigel
Ellen Ratner	...	Debbie
Sam Saletta	...	Ryan
Rafael Rojas III	...	Cody
Troian Avery Bellisario	...	Kristen
Angelique Parry	...	Julianne
Bailey Chase	...	Brad Thomas (as Bailey Luetgert)
Vincent Bowman	...	Buzz Cut
Debra Christofferson	...	Autumn
Lisa Montgomery	...	Enola Rubinstein
Twink Caplan	...	Chelsea Myers

Runtime:

USA:87 min (DVD) | Argentina:92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:PG | Argentina:Atp | Germany:o.Al. | UK:PG | USA:G

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Goofs:

Continuity: When Max is having his breakfast from a bowl at the beginning of the movie, the camera is close and the bowl is high, the camera pans out and the bowl is suddenly low, yet when the camera does a close up again, the bowl is high again. He didn't have time to put it back up or get it to the right height.

Quotes:

[Emily has a crush on her diving instructor Brad. After a dive]
Brad: Good, Emily, you're getting better!
Emily: Thanks, Bod, I mean Brad!

Well done

It's the Olsen twins to the rescue once again in their straight-to-video release, Billboard Dad. With Venice, California, serving as a Bohemian backdrop, the preteen queens of the dead-mom genre scheme to find their widowed father a girlfriend by turning a Hollywood billboard into a personal ad. Breezy predictability ensues: Dad gets thousands of letters and dates a series of progressively weirder women before bumping into Ms. Right. Since Dad's a successful sculptor, true love destroys the angst behind his profitable art. As his agent tries to drive a wedge between the lovebirds, the twins become unwitting accomplices. All of this just sets the stage, really, for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to do their thing--they are way cool, fashionable, and mature beyond their preteen years--with their equally hip friends, who have a drama of their own unfolding on the diving team. Nothing truly unexpected happens, but it doesn't matter. In other words, parents, don't watch this alone.